Services

Architecture

We responded to our clients' expanding needs and broadened our core services to include Architecture. The Architectural Department is dedicated to conceiving creative solutions tailored to our client’s needs. The quality of life that our projects bring to our clients is important and a reflection of us; we strive to provide well-designed and creative spaces. Architecture surrounds us where we live, work and play. It is our mission to emerge our clients visions into quality places. At Spicer, we are a combination of artists and tacticians; imagining, molding and creating unique environments for each project we design and every client we work with.

ARCHITECTURAL TYPES:

· Municipal

· Education

· Industrial

· Residential

· Public Housing

· Senior Living

· Historic Preservation

· Commercial/ Retail

· Offices

· Parks and Recreation

OUR SERVICES:

Our comprehensive architectural services include an all in-house team of civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers. This means seamless integration of all disciplines into our designs starting with conceptual and schematic design, design development and following through with construction documentation, bidding assistance and construction contract administration.

Akron Township Hall

In 2014, the rural community of Akron Township in Tuscola County acquired a former restaurant building and property along M-25 near Unionville with the intention to renovate it into a new hall and offices for Township officials. The 1,900 square-foot building had been out of service for some time, and there were a few issues with its adaptive reuse as a township hall. Spicer Group completed an evaluation of the original structure and made recommendations for updates that would be needed to accommodate new staff and serve the Township’s administrative operation needs. The Township moved forward with these recommendations, which included a complete renovation of the existing building and the addition of 1,040 square feet of meeting space. New walkways and a crushed limestone parking lot were also installed. Spicer provided the design for the improvements and also assisted with bidding and construction administration.

Frankenmuth Brewery

The Frankenmuth Brewery is a four-level building that has survived a tornado and a fire since it was originally built more than a century ago. The top three floors are used as a brew pub and the bottom level as a banquet hall. It includes a kitchen, bar, restrooms, an enclosed banquet hall and an outdoor deck and seating area.

In 2013, the brewery’s owners contacted Spicer Group, who partnered with RC Hendricks, a Saginaw-based construction firm, to do a design-build project and enclose the lower level’s outdoor deck area to increase the brewery’s seating capacity of their banquet room to about 275 people.

To make sure the patio could carry the weight of the structure that would be built on top of it, helical piers - sections of pipe with an auger on the end that were drilled 30 feet into the ground underneath the patio’s concrete floor. The patio was then enclosed using the same design and materials as the rest of the brewery, keeping the look industrial and uniform. Large, 10-feet-tall retractable window walls were installed riverside that allows the addition to retain an open air feel of the original patio, while still allowing for an enclosed space during inclement weather and retaining the beautiful views of the river.

St Louis Municipal and Police Offices

The City of St. Louis purchased a former IGA Food Store located within their downtown on a prime location alone the Pine River. Spicer Group worked with the City Administrative and Police staff to create a design for the renovation of the former IGA store into a new home for the City offices, Police Department and a new Community Center. The project included a complete renovation of the 17,415 square foot building, new sidewalks, new parking lot and outside lighting.

Andersen Recreational Complex

The Frank N. Andersen Recreational Complex is a universally accessible facility located in Liberty Park in Bridgeport Township that exceeds Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards. It boasts a universally-designed multi-purpose field, family-style restrooms, entry tower, parking areas, and pathways linking to other park facilities and the surrounding community.

The complex was developed with support from a $500,000 Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Grant and another $600,000 that was raised by Bridgeport Township. The complex serves the entire Great Lakes Bay Region, which has more then 63,000 special-needs children over the age of five according to the 2006 U.S. Census statistics. This number supports the need for such a well-rounded facility in the area, whose population of the disabled is slightly higher than most communities in Michigan.

This recreational complex is the only one of its kind in Michigan. And while ADA-accessible facilities are not new to Michigan, this project is the first universally-designed facility specifically created and built for multi-sports and events. Spicer Group was responsible for the design and construction administration on this $1.5 million facility.

Oscoda Pier

Spicer Group assisted Oscoda Township by designing a new waterfront recreation and fishing pier on Lake Huron. The public can now enjoy the new 8-foot wide, 150-foot-long wooden boardwalk that leads to a 14-foot-wide, 320-foot long pier. Some of the amenities incorporated into the design were accessible fishing areas, new ADA benches as well as lighting that will give the pier identity in the evening hours. The pier creates a link between the existing Oscoda Beach Park Boardwalk and the Lake Huron waterfront. Funding for the project was provided through a DNR Trust Fund Grant with a local match.

Tilted Axis Brewery

Chevy In the Hole

Victoria Commons Condominiums

The Pines Homestead

Tobico Towers Structural Improvements

Spicer Group was hired by the Friends of the Bay City State Recreation Area to rehabilitate the Tobico Towers, located in the Bay City State Recreation area in Bangor Township. The project included final design and bidding.

Upgrades to the towers included structural improvements, deck replacement, added handrails, and the addition of metal mesh to the railings. All of these improvements made the towers much safer and brought them up to all codes and regulations.

Both towers are four-stories, 75-feet-tall and have 20-foot by 20-foot viewing platforms at the top. They are located along the trails of the Tobico Marsh, a 1,848-acre wildlife refuge that has both paved and wooded trails for hiking, biking and cross-country skiing.

Thomas Township DPW Building

Spicer Group was responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of a new Department of Public Works Building for Thomas Township. The new building includes a storage garage with three 18’ x 8’ doors large enough to accommodate six police vehicles. A 70’ x 150’ storage area that includes two 12’ x 14’ tall garage doors for DPW equipment and materials was also included. Other features of the facility include a reception/waiting area, two offices, conference room, utility room, copy machine room, break room and mens’s and women’s locker rooms with adjacent restrooms and shower.

St Charles DPW Facility and Truck Garage

Spicer Group completed the soil investigation, site development, building design, and construction administration for the new St. Charles Department of Public Works Building. Because the building needed to span nearly 70 feet and had a desired eave height of 16 feet, Spicer recommended a steel rigid frame structure as the best cost-performance solution. Existing organic soil fill was replaced with structural granular fill material as part of the site development. The L-shaped facility is 10,500-square-feet with a main structure garage of 120’ x 68’ and an office/wash bay area of 64’ x 40’.

Baker Aerospace

Bay County Division on Aging- Riverside Friendship Hall

Spicer Group worked with the Bay County Division on Aging to provide Architectural Design Services, Construction Document Preparation, Bidding Assistance, and Construction Inspection Services required to implement a Kitchen Renovation and Expansion project at the Riverside Friendship Senior Center.

Spicer Group worked with the Division on Aging staff to determine the key items necessary to meet the current and future demands of their programs. This work includes reconfiguring the expansion of the existing kitchen, provide kitchen planning to accommodate the production of up to 800 lunch meals per day, provide for adequate dry and cold storage, provide winter time pavement heating system and shielding from inclement weather conditions at a loading area, and to allow for continued use during construction.

Outside of the immediate kitchen area, the project also included providing a new breakroom, staff lockers, restrooms, a new beverage station inside the dining area, designing replacement floor and wall finishes, designing replacement ceiling tiles, and lighting updates.

Greendale Township Hall

Spicer Group provided inspection and design services for renovations of the former Pleasantview Elementary School, built in 1958, into a new township hall. To achieve this vision, the Township applied for USDA grants as well as low-interest loans. Spicer worked with Adrin Wagner of the USDA to gain approval of the preliminary application and preliminary building drawings showing the building design and improvements that were required to move on to the final application.

After the USDA application was approved, Spicer completed the construction documents, assisted with bidding and provided construction administration services through project completion. The adaptive reuse project included an entirely new geothermal heating and cooling roof design, new windows, case work, color selections and incorporated value engineering principles to keep costs down. The township hall now has remodeled board room with a compact kitchen, office space, record storage space, and an area for township officials to hold office hours. Two rooms have been reconstructed to accommodate emergency vehicles in two garage bays. Only one room was left unfinished to allow for future growth of emergency services.